Swedish listening practice: making meeting plans
What the lesson covers
This lesson focuses on improving Swedish listening comprehension, a shift from previous speaking exercises. Students engage in listening exercises by first hearing a recorded conversation without accompanying text, attempting to understand it, and then listening to it again with the Swedish transcript provided. Following this, the conversation's meaning is explained in English. The lesson demonstrates this method with two short dialogues: the first discussing meeting plans, locations (Gothenburg and Stockholm), and availability, and the second being a response confirming presence in Stockholm, inquiring about accommodation, offering a stay at their house, and asking for an arrival time.
Vocabulary in this lesson
37 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- anders
- Anders
- att
- to (infinitive marker)
- bokat
- booked
- bor
- live/stay
- centralstationen
- Central Station
- dig
- you (object)
- du
- you
- ett
- a/an (neuter)
- gå
- to go
- göteborg
- Gothenburg
- har
- have
- hej
- Hello
- hotell
- hotel
- hus
- house
- här
- here
- i
- in
- idag
- today
- imorgon
- tomorrow
- ja
- yes
- jag
- I
- kan
- can / to be able to
- komma
- come
- men
- but
- mitt
- my
- nu
- now
- när
- When
- nära
- near
- om
- if
- ska
- will/going to
- stockholm
- Stockholm
- tid
- time
- till
- to
- träffa
- meet
- var
- Where
- vill
- want / wants
- åka
- to go / travel
- är
- am / is / are
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
In this lesson, we're going to do something different. So, so far we've done a lot of different speaking exercises which are very important in order to learn how to think in Swedish, how to formulate sentences in Swedish. However, it's also important to be able to listen and to understand other people speaking Swedish. Of course, a conversation is a two-way street, so it's important not only to be able to give the output, to be able to speak, but it's also important to be able to listen and to understand.
So what we're going to do now is we're going to do some listening exercises. And the way this works is that we'll begin by playing a recording of a conversation, and it's up to you then to listen to that recording carefully and to try to understand what's being said and see if you can explain it in your own words. You may be able to get all of it or perhaps you get some of it and you miss out on other parts, which is perfectly fine.
Because after we've done this, you'll then have the opportunity to listen to the recording one more time,
The video plays beside a transcript that follows it line by line. Swedish words are underlined; tap one and the video pauses, the meaning appears, and the word goes into your library. At the end there is a five-question quiz written from this exact lesson, and every word can be practised out loud.